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Edinburgh part six - Have a good day at work, dear (new)

Edinburgh part five - The Five Doctors

Edinburgh part four - More shortbread than you can imagine

Edinburgh part three - The big house on the hill

Edinburgh part two - Getting to know you

Edinburgh part one - Going up

Coventry Part IV - The House

Coventry Part III - The Herbert

Coventry Part II - The Great Glass Escalator

Coventry Part I - The Journey

My Doctor Who Experiment - The RESULTS~!

Answer Me This!

Yes, Prime Minister comes to the stage

Why I'm not watching Doctor Who anymore

Thoughts on the Launch of Sky Atlantic

The One Key Fiasco

The Year of Extreme Weather From Hell

London Expedition Part 4 - Strolling, Rushing and Common Sense

London Expedition Part 3 - Cars, Clocks and Computers

London Expedition Part 2 - Journey Into Space

London Expedition Part 1 - Getting There

The Museum o'Museums

The Things We Do For Love

Collecting World Cup Stickers

My Top Gear Conversion

"Thursday night, Channel 5..."

What Next for the BBC?

Da Vinci – the Genius

My Televisions (part 3 - 1997 to present)

My Televisions (part 2 - 1990 to 1997)

My Televisions (part 1 - birth to 1990)

MOSI III

Guest Producer - Season 20

Bletchley part 8 - the 20 Minute Crush

Bletchley part 7 - Henry's House

Bletchley part 6 - Canal, Camembert and Concrete Cows

Bletchley part 5 - the Engima machine

Bletchley part 4 - the Guided Tour

Bletchley part 3 - Milton Keynes by Night

Bletchley part 2 - National Computer Museum (cont)

Bletchley part 1 - National Computer Museum

Beeston Castle

Manchester Cathedral et al

Urbis - Computer Games 2.0 and some MODERN ART~!

Urbis and the history of the video game

The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Series 3

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Series 2

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Series 1

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Prelude

Giant spiders and opium pipes (Bolton part 4)

Art, Fish and Pasties (Bolton part 3)

From the Cradle of Civilisation to the FA Cup Final (Bolton part 2)

Planet of the Dead - an impossibly early review

A Train to Ancient Egypt (Bolton part 1)

Guest Producer - season 22

War Museum (II)

Jodrell Bank

The Manchester United Museum

The Mega Store

Old Trafford (part 3) 

Old Trafford (part 2)

Old Trafford (part 1)

The Blue Planet

Going Underground

Museum of Science and Industry (part 2)

Museum of Science and Industry (part 1)

Another Week of Spam

The Next Doctor Preview Clip

Six Months On

The utterly unsuccessful Manchester Gallery trip

We're all off to the zoo... part 3

Guest Producer - Trial of a Time Lord 

We're all off to the zoo... part 2

We're all off to the zoo... part 1

Saturday Afternoon in the Park 

Enter Metallica

A Week’s Worth of Spam (part 2)

A Week’s Worth of Spam (part 1)

AWAY~! part 3

AWAY~! part 2

AWAY~! part 1

The iPhone – Ten Things I Don’t Like 

The iPhone 

Manchester Museum

LASIK - Two Weeks On

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Much Binding in the Marsh

Six Years a Veggie

Torchwood : "To The Last Man" (first draft)

Five years of "Brenty Four"

What’s in a Name?

Windows Vista – First Impressions

The Imperial War Museum North

Teaching History

She Was Xena - a Mighty Princess

In a Time of Ancient Gods... a Land in Turmoil Cried Out For a Hero

Why I Love NetVibes

The Adventures of the Pink Panther – the 1960s

The Top Selling VHS Tapes in Britain

The IMDb Movie Key Words Quiz

Ten Years of Computers - Part Six - 2003

Ten Years of Computers - Part Five - 2002

V+ : A Nerd's Review

Man Utd vs Watford - The Alternative Commentary

Ten Years of Computers - Part Four - 2001

Ten Years of Computers - Part Three - 2000

Ten Years of Computers - Part Two - 1999

Ten Years of Computers - Part One - 1998

Rumours of Death - The Cassette is Not Dead

E-Petitions in Action

A Dozen Really Expensive Books

Third Anniversary Thoughts

Now That's What I Call Album Covers... From Hell... 4

Can Anyone Beat Chuck Liddell?

Now That's What I Call Album Covers... From Hell... 3

Now That's What I Call Album Covers... From Hell... 2

Now That's What I Call Album Covers... From Hell

The Return of BBFC-Approved Porn and the People Who Buy It

The City in Shakespeare Country

The Time Meddler

Round the Horne (Revisited)

Children (and message board users) in Need

Anniversary II - Raw Thoughts

The Whipping Heard Around the World

DVD - The Next Generation

The Look-a-likes

The Harsher Side of ebay

Ebay Classics - Golden Palace

Safar-e-bay IV - I've Started so I'll Finish

What if the Pope had died a bit earlier - the (faked) Reactions

Eccleston - The Reactions

Supper With the Stars

More From the "New Series" Forum

Safar-e-bay III - the Search for Schlock

Are You Down With the 'Loading?

Safar-e-bay - Same game, New name

The ebay Rambling Game

The A to Z of questions the fans have about the New Series 

"...as you do"

Disc Five - Definitive Versatile Discs

Vous ne pas les bosch?

Do you get an interest in genetics from your mother's side or your father's side? 

No candles, no interviews

Disc Four - Digital Versatile Dreams

Disc Three - Digital Versatile Hopes

Disc Two - Digital Versatile Opinion 

Disc One - Digital Versatile Introduction

Here are ten genuine facts about thevervoid.com 

The Eccentrics: Number Two - Jon

It Was a Tuesday Afternoon

Exciting Adventures in Time and Publishing 

"The more you put things together, the more they fall apart..." 

The Eccentrics: Number One - S.R.C. 

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting…

Moi Dah Owt in Burmingum

Something else to worry about 

Greedy pop stars and avaricious execs  [updated 20/07] 

Four men who make you feel better about yourself 

Gormenghast 

When you have read this article don't forget to leave feedback

He's good but he's not Holmes 

"I heard them over... over... over... talking" 

I'm Dreamin' on a Lamp Post at the Corner of the Street...

It's Time to Play the Game 

Me and My Shopping  

It's amazing what you can find on the internet 

"The Abergavenny Murder"

The most fun person I ever worked with 

An Inspiration of Geniuses 

An apology about a sketch and a sketch for which I apologise

"Sexy I Nothing Like I Better To Do - Lesbians in Cyberspace"

Susan Elizabeth Perkins [updated 21/04] 

I mustn’t write about the Mutants, I couldn’t even if I wanted to 

"A variety of women in a number of situations"

My All TV Top Ten - Number 8 

What is this 'happiness' of which you speak?  

The Golden Age of Grotesque

Katy III - Return of the Pervs 

a colm abowt fonetic ritin vs ilitrusy 

Why do they do it? An essay about biros and the decline or morality 

A return to the sticky Katy Hill message board  

My All TV Top Ten - Number 9  

Moonbase Alpha status report 

A Great Conspiracy Theory  

My All TV Top Ten - Number 10 

You know what makes me most embarrassed to be a Doctor Who fan? 

My Favourite Documentary 

Gap Filling and the Minefield of Second Hand Videos  

Close Encounters of the Waterstones Kind 

Going Back... 

Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind

The biggest show on Earth

“I tell you what, Brian, I love the colour of their shirts” 

The Name of the Pain 

A Friday Hotch Potch 

Today in history - 8th February 

How much??? 

The power of your brain... yes - YOUR brain... 

My first week 

The Kindest Cut of All 

I Am a Moron {or "How Not To Start Your New Job!"}  

Ten Days in Royston Vasey (part one)  

Have I betrayed my people?

Katy Hill often used toilet roll holders on BP but meet them men who used the toilet roll 

"Daredevil" - a poor quality film review  

A Special Anniversary

A Sunday morning blog 

The Boy... a poor quality slash fanfic spoof

Paul Temple and the Vervoid Affair

“I don’t want to provide food for a flesh eating tentacle” 

Just Another... Monday

I Have a Dream...

You can tell a lot about a person from their choice of calendars 

New Year's Eve in Japan

A Very Peculiar Practice  

"A Very Gerald Christmas" (a festive short story) 

How many beans make five?

Eight hundred melancholic words

“Well I wouldn’t suck it. Ha ha ha…”  

Yet another in my short series of "Jam" inspired conceits  

The Road to Redundancy - part 3  

Goody Goody Yum Yum  

Hell is a doctor's waiting room  

A bit of a lefty rant  

Run for your lives - it's Danny Baker...  

Doctor Who – a Forty Year Journey in Twenty Five Years   

What better way to celebrate Dr Who's 40th Anniversary than by celebrating its greatest ever story? 

The 30 Best Movies of all time... 

Random Tuesday 

Who watches the Watch Dog? 

Los Lobos and the camp haired glam guards 

Some people think “reflex” is the second round of a bodybuilding contest 

Isn’t it ironic? 

I love coffee creams and four other reasons why I’m a mutant freak 

You couldn’t see the join 

Never let success get to your conscience... 

Those of you with your own websites will know how addictive webstats are... 

The Wedding Car sketch... 

I did a bad thing last night…  

British politics and American wrestling are more similar than people think

Great expectations 

An idiot’s guide to antidepressants 

A little bit of irrational hatred never hurt anyone 

Coming clean about soaps 

Sacked twice in one day. I feel so proud... 

The most controversial column I've ever written... 

Some thoughts on Halloween by a soft and slightly flaccid Pagan 

Ask me to name the cast of Doctor in the House and I could do it without pausing for breath... 

The size and shape of a small pocket calculator, smoother than silk and more intuitive to operate than a penis...

I am compelled to cheerily greet whichever weasel happens to have dialled my direct line at any given moment... 

I decided to stop being a thinly read baboon and aim for the logical heights of fifty two books in one year...

The reality is that there are more websites than there are people...

So I’m sitting in a really boring meeting and a sketch comes to me, perfectly formed, in one solid mental lump....